Ebay considering Ending Auction format?

techspec

Irn-Bru-Kid wrote: »

I only sell second hand items and I only use BIN.

Auctions are too much hassle for me. Numerous questions, silly 'end it early' offers and almost always 'do you have a BIN price?'

BIN with immediate payment works very well for me with second hand goods

Yes, but nearly all my items used to have a BIN - to tempt buyers in to spend a little bit more to get it early.

Then the prize morons at Ebay decided sellers MUST charge 40% more if they add BIN.

Result - ive never added BIN since, losing Ebay fees, as buyers will NOT pay 40% more to get an item early. Its ridiculous.

And now, as you say - i always get "do you have a BIN". I have to go through the hassle of raising the start price and ending early. NUTS!

porto_bello

campdave wrote: »

As a seller, I'd welcome it, as it would stop pretend private sellers flooding the listings with their free items they get every other weekend and per month.

As a buyer, I've got some good prices for things using auctions, so it would be a shame.

Don't forget, as a seller, a good proportion of your own buyers will be generating the cash they pay you from auctions of their own items on eBay - take away their income source and you take away your own income source, too.

techspec

porto_bello wrote: »

Don't forget, as a seller, a good proportion of your own buyers will be generating the cash they pay you from auctions of their own items on eBay - take away their income source and you take away your own income source, too.

Good point - i think Ebay often forget that sellers are buyers too, and often visa versa.

Strapped

I use BIN or BIN/BO on my business account, but almost always auctions for my private stuff. Auctions are fun

earthstorm

Well many people were not happy when ebay got rid of free classified ads on some categories, but i dont think they lost many if any members over it

clumsy_cupcake

I think they would lose a lot of members if they removed auctions.
I would be gone as a seller, my items are second hand clothes from me and my daughter and doubt much would sell as buy it now.

It's a real shame if auctions do go as that was the whole concept of ebay when it started. I would certainly lose my extra bit of money I make selling my old clothes

clumsy_cupcake

earthstorm wrote: »

Well many people were not happy when ebay got rid of free classified ads on some categories, but i dont think they lost many if any members over it

I wouldn't say classified ads and auctions are the same.
You can place an ad in every corner shop, gumtree, Friday ads etc so not a big loss for sellers. Auctions on the other hand there is not other real alternative

earthstorm

clumsy_cupcake wrote: »

I wouldn't say classified ads and auctions are the same.
You can place an ad in every corner shop, gumtree, Friday ads etc so not a big loss for sellers. Auctions on the other hand there is not other real alternative

I know they are not the same, but their were a lot who where not happy.

some services need to have direct links in their listings which class ads were ideal.

take web hosting. a user orders through ebay BIN or auction. the seller than has to send the buyer a link to their own site/server for the buyer to set up the hosting on the sellers server, but if the link is in the listing then this can be done automatically. Yes ebay are happy for hosts to do this as it how the businesses runs and as hosting is a recurring payment business ( as long as listings are not full of links).

pikachu_bumface

What puts me off BIN (for business sales and my old junk), is deciding on what the price would be - how should I know what someone's willing pay?

I think with auctions the idea of the value of the item lies with the buyer, rather than the seller, they are deciding how much to bid and therefore how much the item is worth to them. If I had to decide this I think I would get it wrong!

For me, this is eBay's greatest strength, and I can't see them stopping auctions because of the revenue from fees, surely it's better to have active listings generating revenue than thousands of 30-day BIN listings going unsold?

paulc333

removing auctions would be a problem for me, I sell things on BIN that I previously bought on Auction. no auctions may well mean nothing to sell for me.